You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.
I'm sorry, but to ask an audience these days to invest three hours in a show requires your heroine be an understandable and fully rounded character.
I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working on a TV show.
The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.
If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span?
TV can be a long commitment.
On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.
Nobody can understand the pressures of doing an hour-long TV show unless you've done one. Even when you're not on call, you still are working, learning lines, doing appearances, just tense.
The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.